Volume 3: Come to the Table

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Introduction From The Editor

In an effort to explore the nature of this [service] ethic, we have arranged this issue of The Global Citizen around the metaphor of a table. Tables, be they the tables of our childhood or those of our adult lives, are by their very nature places where we gain our values. Thus, in the first article, “Come to the Table: Five Values for the Global Citizen,” I have invited you to explore the nature of this ethic at each of five tables. The values set out at these tables – mutuality, influence, competence, humility, and celebration – are neither a complete nor settled set. One might question why I chose mutuality over sacrifice, community or wonder; or perhaps why hope or change were left out. By sustaining a metaphor of invitation to this series of five tables, I hope to leave space for such questions, indeed space for other tables where this ethic might be further shaped. Read the full introduction.

Table Of Contents

An invitation to consider a values framework for global citizenship that will empower you to live out a life-long ethic of service, civic engagement, and global understanding.
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COMMUNITY TABLE: Mutuality

A Krista Colleague and young mother reflects on her beautifully complex experience of building community.
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One Krista Colleague, using her Service and Leadership Development grant, writes about hers surprising encounter with questions of truth and identity.
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Life lessons learned from the unlikeliest of teachers – high school students from New Start alternative school.
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NEGOTIATION TABLE: Influence

In an appraisal of environmentalist John Muir’s walk to the Gulf of Florida, Dr. Hunt explores the relationship between travel and leadership.
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In a survey of the key literature on globalization over the past two decades, Dr. Veseth traces the nexus of the debate and how it has changed our understanding and expectations of globalization.
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STUDY TABLE: Competence

A Krista Colleague wrestles with the nature of ‘service’ as she makes her way through the often cold confines of graduate school.
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A Krista Colleague finds creative ways to link her graduate research with her determination to contribute to the people and environmental concerns of her Navajo homeland in the beautiful Sonoran Desert.
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OPERATING TABLE: Humility

When an accomplished college athlete brings the same drive for success to her service activities, she experiences burnout and exhaustion before finding healing and hope.
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A Krista Colleague shares how sitting in genuine solidarity with patients facing death became a life altering, even mystical experience.
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HEARTHING TABLE: Celebration

A roving National Public Radio correspondent finds during the hell of war, the comfort, beauty and life giving power of food.
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Three recipes from the Krista Foundation’s own gourmet, all tried and tested by countless Colleagues at the Hearth.
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